Washington Independent Review of Books

Monday: In “Next Book,” columnist Amanda Holmes Duffy muses on our impulse to personalize nature.

Tuesday: An interview with John A. Jenkins, author of

Behold the Bird in Flight is the story of Isabelle d’Angouleme, queen of England after her marriage to King John (of 1215 Magna Carta fame). Terri Lewis recounts in her author’s note how two sentences in a guidebook at Windsor Castle piqued her interest in Isabelle’s s...

A love letter to Miami and a meditation on fatherhood, Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida paints a vivid picture of contemporary South Florida in all its contradictions and beauty.

Selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, Cunningham’s second collection weaves together ecological and familial landscapes, ...

In What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything, Jessa Crispin introduces a fresh take on a perpetual male-female issue: We’ve been so busy conflating men with the system that keeps them in ...

Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency by Stephen F. Knott (University Press of Kansas). R...